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Moothon
''Moothon'' (), also known internationally as ''The Elder One'', is a 2019 Indian Malayalam-language drama film written and directed by Geetu Mohandas, and jointly produced by S. Vinod Kumar, Anurag Kashyap, Ajay G. Rai and Alan McAlex. Featuring a bilingual narrative in Jeseri dialect of Malayalam and Hindi, the film stars Nivin Pauly, Shashank Arora, Sobhita Dhulipala, Melissa Raju Thomas, Sanjana Dipu and Roshan Mathew. Hindi-language dialogues were written by Anurag Kashyap. The film premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and received a positive critical response. It was included in The Hindu's top 25 Malayalam films of the decade and is widely regarded as one of the defining movies of the New Wave Movement. Plot The story is about a 14-year-old child, Mulla from Lakshadweep who travels to Mumbai in search of Moothon (elder brother), Akbar, who left the island for Mumbai many years ago. Mulla is a child living in Lakshadweep islands under the care of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nivin Pauly
Nivin Pauly (born 11 October 1984) is an Indian actor and producer who works predominantly in Malayalam films. He is a recipient of several awards including two Kerala State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards South, Filmfare South awards. Nivin auditioned for and was cast in one of the main roles in Vineeth Sreenivasan's directorial debut ''Malarvaadi Arts Club'' in 2009, which was produced by actor Dileep (actor), Dileep. Nivin got his Breakthrough role, breakthrough with his lead role in the romantic film ''Thattathin Marayathu'' (2012), which was also directed by Vineeth Sreenivasan. He came to be known for playing "Boy next door (stock character), boy next door" archetype following roles in the bilingual black-comedy thriller ''Neram'' (2013), the sports-drama ''1983 (film), 1983'' (2014), the romantic-comedy ''Ohm Shanthi Oshaana'' (2014), the romantic-drama ''Bangalore Days'' (2014), the comedy road-thriller ''Oru Vadakkan Selfie'' (2015), and the coming-of-age romant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Raju Thomas
Melissa Raju Thomas is an Indian actress, screenwriter and model. She made her feature film debut in Geetu Mohandas' bilingual film ''Moothon'' (2019). Early life and education At 13 years old, Melissa was scouted by a talent hunt reality contest in Kerala. At the time, she was only in 8th standard and was cast as a VJ for various shows on the leading Malayalam TV channel, Asianet. She soon became a popular VJ of the Malayalam show, "Valkannadi". She eventually stop VJ-ing to focus on her studies. Melissa ranked first in her school and state with a final percentage of 97.33% in the CBSE Class X Board Exams. She then secured the SIA Youth scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Education, Singapore to study towards her GCE A Levels at Meridian Junior College. Believing that it would be a good learning and growth experience for her, Melissa took up the opportunity and moved to Singapore at the age of 16. In 2012, Melissa was crowned the winner of the Navy Queen 2012 beauty p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shashank Arora
Shashank Arora (born 21 February 1991) is an Indian actor and musician. He is known for his roles in '' Titli'' (2014), ''Brahman Naman'' (2016), Moothon (2019) and ''Made in Heaven'' (2019). He is the only Indian actor to have two films compete at Cannes, Berlin, Locarno and one at Sundance Film Festival. Early life and education Arora was born on 21 February 1991, in New Delhi, India. He showed interest and excellence in music and theatre from a young age. After he completed high school in Delhi he left for higher education in Canada, where he also briefly joined a street theatre group formed by human rights activists. In late 2008, he moved to Mumbai where he studied acting for two years and began his career as an actor. His parents are graphic designers and writers. He was inspired by Francis Ford Coppola and Saeed Mirza's cinema as a child. In order to pursue a career in film, Arora went to Concordia University, Montreal, Canada for his graduation in filmmaking, with mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geetu Mohandas
Gayatri Das (born 8 June 1981), known professionally as Geetu Mohandas, is an Indian actress and director known for her works in Malayalam cinema and Bollywood. In 2013, she directed the socio political film '' Liar's Dice'' which has received two National Film Awards, was premiered at Sundance Film Festival, and was chosen by the Government of India as India's entry for the U.S. 87th Academy Awards, but was not shortlisted or nominated. As an actress Geetu's birth name is Gayatri Das. Affectionately called Geetu by her family, the name was adopted as her screen name when she starred in her fourth movie ''Onnu Muthal Poojyam Vare'' in 1986 with Mohanlal in the lead role. Geetu was five years old then and captured the hearts of Malayalam filmgoers as a fatherless child who discovers a father in an anonymous telephone caller. She acted in the top grosser ''En Bommukutty Ammavukku'' as the title role, which was the Tamil remake of Fazil's ''Ente Mamattikkuttiyammakku'' (Malayalam) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roshan Mathew
Roshan Mathew (born 22 March 1992) is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Malayalam films and Hindi, Tamil & Telugu films. He began his career with numerous theatre productions based in Chennai and Mumbai. These include ''The Glass Menagerie'' directed by Rajit Kapoor and ''07/07/07'' directed by Faezeh Jalali. Roshan had his first major role in the 2016 film ''Puthiya Niyamam'' and his career progressed with supporting roles in ''Aanandam'' (2016), ''Koode'' (2018), and ''Moothon'' (2019). For the latter two, he won two SIIMA Awards. He gained wider attention for his leading roles in the dramas ''Kappela'' (2020) and ''C U Soon'' (2021). Mathew has also appeared in the Hindi films '' Choked'' (2020) and '' Darlings'' (2022). Early life Roshan hails from Changanassery, Kottayam in the Indian state of Kerala.He belongs to A Syro Malabar Catholic family. His father Mathew Joseph is a bank manager in Canara Bank and his mother Regina Augustine is a retired PWD engineer. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sobhita Dhulipala
Sobhita Dhulipala (born 31 May 1992) is an Indian actress and model who works primarily in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam films. She won the Femina Miss India Earth 2013 title at Femina Miss India 2013 pageant and represented India at Miss Earth 2013. Dhulipala made her acting debut in Anurag Kashyap's thriller film '' Raman Raghav 2.0'' (2016) and she went on to star in the Telugu films ''Goodachari'' (2018) and ''Major'' (2022), and the Malayalam film ''Kurup'' (2021). She has also starred in the Amazon Prime Video drama series ''Made in Heaven'' (2019). Early life and education Sobhitha Dhulipala was born on 31 May 1992, in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh, India into a Telugu speaking family to Merchant Navy engineer Venugopal Rao and primary school teacher Santha Kamakshi. She grew up in Visakhapatnam as a studious child who only cared for “being well-read, good in studies, school captain”. Desiring broader horizons beyond her home city, she moved to Mumbai alone at the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sujith Shankar
Sujith Shanker is an Indian actor, known for his works in theater and Malayalam cinema. He trained under Kavalam Narayana Panicker at the Sopanam Institute of Performing Arts (1999–2002) and subsequently at the National School of Drama (2002–2005) in New Delhi. Here, he worked with and studied under the likes of Anuradha Kapur, Abhilash Pillai, Khaled Tyabji, Robin Das, Kirti Jain, M. K. Raina, C. R. Jambe, Anamika Haksar and Adil Hussain. ''HELEN'', written and performed by Sujith Shanker and directed by Abhilash Pillai was performed at Tokyo and Seoul as part of ''Performing Women: 3 Reinterpretations from Greek Tragedy'' hosted by the Japan Foundation as part of a joint work with artists from India, Iran, Uzbekistan, and Japan, in 2007 and 2009 Career He was noticed in Rajeev Ravi's Malayalam film ''Njan Steve Lopez'' and is notable for his villainous roles in Malayalam cinema. He got his breakthrough with Dileesh Pothan's '' Maheshinte Prathikaaram''. He also perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajeev Ravi
Rajeev Ravi is an Indian cinematographer, director, and producer from Kochi, Kerala. He's best known for his work in Hindi and Malayalam films. After graduating from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune in 1997, he started his career by assisting in the Malayalam film, ''Pranayavarnangal'' (1998) shot by Santosh Thundiyil. He debuted as a cinematographer with the film ''Chandni Bar'' (2001), when he was launched by producer R. Mohan (GoodKnight Mohan) when the original cinematographer Venu had date clashes. The film was directed by Madhur Bhandarkar. Ravi is known for his collaboration with director Anurag Kashyap. They have collaborated in several commercial and art films in Hindi cinema. In 2012, he co-produced the Hindi feature film ''ID''. The film premiered in the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea. Ravi won the 2010 Filmfare Award for Best Cinematography for Anurag Kashyap's ''Dev.D''. In 2013, he received the National Film Award for Best Cinematog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Toronto International Film Festival
The 44th annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 September 2019. The opening gala was the documentary film '' Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band'', directed by Daniel Roher, and the festival closed with a screening of the biographical film ''Radioactive'', directed by Marjane Satrapi. Awards In addition to its regular film awards, whose winners were announced at the conclusion of the festival, the festival also announced the inaugural TIFF Tribute Awards, a special program to honour distinguished lifetime achievement in film. Tribute Awards were presented to Meryl Streep and Joaquin Phoenix for acting, Taika Waititi for directing, cinematographer Roger Deakins for artisan film craft, Mati Diop for emerging talent, Participant Media for impact media, and David Foster for special contributions to film. The first award recipients were announced on 12 September, with the major awards announced at the close of the festival on 15 September. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiran Das
Kiran Das (born 1 June 1983) is an Indian film editor who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema. He is a recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Editor in 2019 for the movie Ishq (2019 film). His other notable works include Joji, Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum, Joseph and Ambili Filmography {, class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Title !Role !Director !Notes , - , rowspan="6" , 2022 , {, Rorschach , rowspan="1" , Editor , rowspan="1" , Nisam Basheer , rowspan="1" , Released on 2022 October 7 , - , , rowspan="1" , Editor , rowspan="1" , Saheed Arafath , rowspan="1" , Filming , - , rowspan="1" , ''Palthu Janwar'' , rowspan="1" , Editor , rowspan="1" , Sangeeth P Rajan , rowspan="1" , , - , rowspan="1" , ''Appan'' , rowspan="1" , Editor , rowspan="1" , Maju , rowspan="1" , , - , rowspan="1" , '' Prappeda'' , rowspan="1" , Editor , rowspan="1" , Krishnendu Kalesh , , - , rowspan="1" , '' Kudukku 2025'' , rowspan="1" , Edito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JAR Pictures
JAR Pictures is an Indian motion picture production company based in Mumbai. The company was founded in 2011 by Bollywood producers Ajay G. Rai and Alan McAlex. Jar Pictures is mostly known for making independent films. Jar Pictures also provides production services to leading studios in India. Jar Pictures' '' Liar's Dice'' was India's Official Entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the 87th Academy Awards. History Jar Pictures was formerly known as Jar Entertainment, a company wholly owned by Ajay G. Rai. Ajay met Alan McAlex while working on the film ''Thank you'' (2011) where Ajay was the Executive Producer and Alan was the line producer. They decided to collaborate and Jar Pictures was formed. Filmography *Films produced by Jar Pictures *Film Production Services by Jar Pictures OTT Awards * 62nd National Film Awards The 62nd National Film Awards ceremony was an event during which the Directorate of Film Festivals presents its annual National Film Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harish Khanna (actor)
Harish Khanna is an Indian actor who appears mainly in Indian and foreign language films. He is best known for his performances in ''Yahaan'', ''Kaminey'', ''Midnight’s Children'', and ''Gangs of Wasseypur''. Early life and education Khanna was born in Kota, Rajasthan into a Khatri family. He completed his junior school from Delhi and high school from Luthra Academy and Model School (MIER), Jammu. Thereafter he went on to pursue his graduation in acting from National School of Drama, New Delhi. On completion of his graduation in 1993, he moved to Mumbai and started working as an actor in both theater and films together. He received the Charles Wales India Trust Award in the year 1999–2000 to pursue his studies in the UK at Central School of Speech & Drama, London, where he completed a certificate course in MA Performance Studies and Voice Studies. Theatre career Khanna started working in theater as an actor with Natrang in Jammu and Kashmir. He has traveled wide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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